Saudi’s Shoura Council passes draft Civil Transactions Law

Saudi’s Shoura Council passes draft Civil Transactions Law

RIYADH — The three members, who mooted a proposal for equal blood money for a man and woman and a Muslim and non-Muslim, were unable to present their recommendation during Monday’s Shoura Council session, which approved the draft Civil Transactions Law.

Okaz/Saudi Gazette has learnt from well-informed sources at the Council that the Shoura members — Latifa Al-Shaalan, Faisal Al-Fadel, and Atta Al-Subaiti — were poised to submit the recommendation to add a new paragraph to Article 138 of the draft Civil Transactions Law.

However, the session, chaired by Vice President Mishaal Al-Salmi, denied them permission to present their defense of the recommendation.

According to the sources, the members had earlier received a letter from Suleiman Al-Fifi, head of the Council’s Islamic Affairs Committee, rejecting their proposal regarding the blood money but the members vowed to go ahead with their decision to present their proposal.

The proposed amendment in the draft law was as follows: “It is prohibited to show discrimination in the amount of compensation in a felony against a person on the basis of gender, religion, or any other forms of discrimination.”

The committee rejected the proposal for this amendment on the basis of the jurisprudential justifications, citing the examples of several Arab